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Non-asymptotic uniform in time error bounds for new and old numerical schemes for SPDEs
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Non-asymptotic uniform in time error bounds for new and old numerical schemes for SPDEs

Can Huang, Michela Ottobre and Gideon Simpson
ArXiv.org
19 Mar 2026
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.18944View
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Abstract

Computer Science - Numerical Analysis Mathematics - Numerical Analysis Mathematics - Probability
We study numerical schemes for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs). We introduce a general method of proof of non-asymptotic uniform in time error bounds on numerical integrators for SPDEs, ensuring the schemes capture both the transient and the long term dynamics faithfully. We then consider SPDEs with non-globally Lipshitz nonlinearities, which include for example the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation and some stochastic advection-diffusion equations. For the case of Allen-Cahn type SPDEs we show that the classic semi-implicit Euler time-discretization can exhibit finite time blow up. This motivates analysing other schemes which do not suffer from this blow-up problem. We consider three numerical schemes for SPDEs with non globally Lipshitz nonlinearity: a fully implicit scheme and two tamed schemes. For these schemes we prove non-asymptotic uniform in time error bounds by leveraging our general criterion, and provide numerical comparisons. While the main emphasis in this paper is on the properties of the time-discretization, the schemes we consider are full space-time discretization of the SPDE.

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